Constitution Timeline

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  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    A group of men named as "Son of Lberty", dressed as Mhawk Indians the men boarded in three British ships and dumped forty five tons of tea into the Boston Harbor.

  • Declaration of Rights and Grievances is Passes

    Declaration of Rights and Grievances is Passes
    British Parliments passed a series of laws known as Coercive Acts. Americans called them the Intolerable Acts.

  • First Continental Congress Meets

    First Continental Congress Meets
    they meet in the Carpenter Hall in Philidalphia. All of the colonies meet except Georgia sent delegates. The colonies presented there were united in a determination to show a combined authority to Great Britain.

  • Revolutionary War Begins

    Revolutionary War Begins
    On a mission to capture Patriot leaders and seize a Patriot arsenal, march into Lexington to find 77 armed minutemen under Captain John Parker waiting for them on the town's common green

  • 2nd Continental Congress meet

    2nd Continental Congress meet
    Congress meet for the sescond time in Philidalphia . The meeting started with the battle of Lexington and Concord .They elstabilshed the militia as the continetial congress representing the thirteen states. Also they elected George Washington as commander Chief of the continential Army.

  • Declaration of Independence is signed

    Declaration of Independence is signed
    Fifty-six congressional delegates in total signed the document, including some who were not present at the vote approving the declaration.

  • Articles of Confederations is signed

    Articles of Confederations is signed
    The Articles of the Confederation and Perpetual Union were put into use in 1777 and were formally ratified by all 13 states by the year 1781

  • Revolutionary War ends

    Revolutionary War ends
    the treaty of paris was the end of the revolutionary war

  • Constitutional Congress opens

    Constitutional Congress opens
    The State House Of Philidalphia, 55 delgates from several states meet to frame a constitution for a federal Rebublic.

  • Final Draft of the constitution is signed

    Final Draft of the constitution is signed
    Memebers of the constitutional convention signed the final draft of the Constitution. Edmund Randolph asked for another convention so they could carefully review the constitution as it stood.This motion, supported by George Mason and Elbridge Gerry, was voted down and the Constitution was adopted.